: characterized by, full of, or given to gossip
a gossipy letter
gossipy neighbors
Examples of gossipy in a Sentence
this book on the people who have occupied the White House is a little too gossipy to qualify as serious history
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Ladd appears as a titular host of the The Marilyn Levens Starlight Celebrity Show, a gossipy figure who grills Nikki.
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Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
There was schadenfreude at One World Trade last week when Carter sold his publication Air Mail for $16 million, primarily in stock, to the gossipy digital new startup Puck — a disappointing exit for a publication that had positioned itself as the digital evolution of Vanity Fair for a new age.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
In the meantime, his North Carolina Tar Heels live an almost daily nightmare at 2-5 with an unending stream of gossipy headlines and bad losses in a downtrodden ACC.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Including this gossipy memoir for the truly obsessive aesthetes.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
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Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
There was schadenfreude at One World Trade last week when Carter sold his publication Air Mail for $16 million, primarily in stock, to the gossipy digital new startup Puck — a disappointing exit for a publication that had positioned itself as the digital evolution of Vanity Fair for a new age.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
In the meantime, his North Carolina Tar Heels live an almost daily nightmare at 2-5 with an unending stream of gossipy headlines and bad losses in a downtrodden ACC.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Including this gossipy memoir for the truly obsessive aesthetes.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gossipy
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“Gossipy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gossipy. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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